twitter application for PalmOS

twitter is one of the internet hype nowadays. I, as one of twitter user and PalmOS user, wondering is there any twitter API application that works on my Treo650.

After searching, I found one a real native PalmOS application for twitter. But unfortunately the application is not suit my need for twittering. That application is only able to update the status, without any other functionality.

Then later, I found another twitter application which is based on Java. The name is twittai. completely fulfilled my requirement of what twitter application should be.
twittai, could update, reply, retweet, save as favorite, direct message, etc.

So far, twittai is the only java application for twitter that can works on IBM Java VM for PalmOS. other twitter Java application failed because the IBM Java VM lack of support on detail display.

If you want to use it, make sure you have IBM Java VM installed on your treo650 or your PalmOS device. then goto http://m.twittai.com from your blazer browser. then download it, and ready to use.

tips: bypass keyguard

When you set-up the keyguard on your treo 650, it will lock your phone after it goes to sleep - depend on the setting on the preference - to avoid any accidental keyboard pressed.

but when you wake the phone up, the lock still active, and you need to press the center of the d-pad to activate it.

so it need two step for the treo to be function normal, first waking it up by pressing the red phone button, then pressing the central button of d-pad.

btw, there's a shortcut for it, so you only need one step to wake your treo up.
it's done by pressing the alt button (the blue button) with the red phone button.
your treo 650 will instantly active.

source: id-palmOS milis.

fun with your contacts, and scroll a la blackberry

Treoblle is an application to ease you scrolling your contacts in fast. the display of the contacts name in big font is nice too.
You can scroll the contact list by stylus - i preferred using my finger - up and down smoothly.
press and move your finger/stylus up and down until specific name. to see the phone number/e-mail of the person, you need to press-hold for a second for the info to pop up.
it can operated by d-pad, but it loose the fun.

additionally to imitate a blackberry side scrolling, you might want to install treoSkey to emulate the volume button of your treo into scrolling button.
after you install the treoSkey, it will be installed under preference. open your preference, on section 'Other' you'll see treoSkey. enable it.
but somehow it's not instantly makes the treoSkey to work, after you go to your Home, press Option + side button to activate it.
now, with treoSkey so you can scroll a la blackberry on any application on your treo.

and one thing for sure, those two applications are free for use. :)

free games for treo 650

Bored with you current games on your treo 650? There's a good news from Pdamill, that they release their games for free.
free?! yes! no registration needed. just click and download.

go to Pdamill free games, then download the provided games, make sure you download the 320x320, instead of 480x320, because your treo 650 screen is 320x320.

unzip the downloaded file, then hotsync it.
if you encounter any error when running those game, try to rename the file [filename]320x320.pdb into [justfilename].pdb

posterous.com

i overheard posterous mentioned everywhere, on twitter, on plurk. So it tickled me to try it.

posterous is blog service that provide a flexibility for people to post using his/her e-mail, and it's no need some kind of registration form either.

just send e-mail to post@posterous.com, then it'll generate a temporary blog for you which later need to be setup by you.
your 'e-mail' will be shown on your 'going to be' posterous blog.

you can send normal text, pictures, video from your mobile phone, using your e-mail client.

but the problem arise after i try to send a picture which i took using my treo650, then send it via gmail using snapper.
the picture size is only 92 kb. when snapper send it, it become 125 kb (which is normal for e-mail size marked up due to header thing).

since treo 650 is doesn't have 3G capability, i send it using GPRS network.
and it took me averagely 30 minutes just to send 1 picture. and it failed due to timeout.

so there goes fun, i probably won't use my handheld to send blog (pic) post to my blog at posterous.

strange crash

last week, i had a strange experience. my treo650 crashed. then while it reset, it was reseting twice.

for a moment i'm affraid that it'll go for infinitive loop, thankfully not. but when it finishes restarting, the screen is back to default, no wallpaper on the pone screen, just plain blueish gradation.

hey what's wrong? i checked another application in the treo650, it's all there. but, when i open the application, it goes back to default preference. like a new fresh installed ;( ..argh!

so i try to re-setting every applications in my treo. then when i try browsing using web/blazer it crashed! hua!

i try several times, sometimes it works normally, but most of the time it crashes on blazer. *sigh.

finally. i fed up. then i hard-reset my treo650.
to hard reset treo 650 is almost the same as soft reset. which is stick your stylus into the hole near the battery.
after you see progressing bar, press the red phone button. then when you see palm logo, wait for 2 seconds, then release the red phone button.
then it'll prompt you wheter you want to erase the data or not. press up on d-pad for yes as the answer.
then your treo will be formatted.

google map application for palm OS

finaly, google launch it's google map application for palm OS devices. it's already compile as PRC, so it will be easy to install.

you can download it by directing your palm OS browser to http://www.google.com/gmm then download the application.

later when it has finished downloading, then you must run the installer that you've just downloaded.
then you can open google map on your handheld. but don't forget it need internet connection to browse google map.

i'm using treo 650, and it's smoothly open. but unfortunately since i'm living in jakarta, indonesia, the map is not really detailed. but at least i can view satelite imagery of the city :)

google map for palm OS have features such;

• find location,
  just type any location you want, then google map will show you where is it.
• find near by business,
  let say, if you're hungry, and you want to eat pizza, then type on the pizza on the search box, and google map will find it, if the business is registered in the map.
• direction,
  google map will find direction from one location to another location.
• traffic,
  google map will show you traffic in current opened map, if available

info via: id-PalmOS mailing list

game: wait for it

Wait For It is a new game for palmOS 5 from Daily Mindfulness.

Tired of multiplayer first-person shooter games that reward 14-year-old punks with itchy trigger fingers? Put the ultimate gaming skill--patience--to the ultimate test with this unique multiplayer contest game from the creators of Don't Step There! The object of the game is simply to wait more efficiently than your competitors (AI or human). If you're stuck alone, sitting around waiting for an errant friend at the movie theatre, quickly fire up Wait for It on your Palm device and start playing immediately with real people around the world. There's no skill necessary; just the ability to wait patiently for long periods of time

you may download it from http://download.com

a new hotsync cable

it's been months ago that i broke my hotsync cable. the pin on the right broke. but it's working just fine for synchronizing and charging.

until one month ago, the cable failing to sync. but still able to charge which sometimes causing extreme hot.

from id-palmOS mailing list, most of people suggest to clean the cable pin using cotton bud and alcohol.
I've tried it, and it wont do. the cable still fail to hotsync.

so i browse milis id-palmos' archives, and i found out that somebody just bought hotsync cable from one of the famous person ^:) in milis, zay.

later, i contact him whether he still had this hotsync cable. he said he need to check whether the cable still available.
then i arrange time to meet him in persons, since his office near by mine, but unfortunately the time is not on my side, so i failed to meet him.

i want to have discussion about my broken d-pad, zay is famous for fixing error in treo, so i wonder that he will be able to fix mine.

because there's small chances that i can meet face to face, than i request for the cable price and his bank account. i send the inquiry e-mail along with my address.

several days gone by without answer. and suddenly a package came to my house. and it's the hotsync cable!
wow! i even hadn't transfer any money yet.
now! i can hotsync, and charge with pleasure ;P

broken d-pad

i accidently dropped my treo to the floor, and then the d-pad is fell off. then i try tu put the d-pad back in. and turn out that i put it wrong, the upper side is should be the lower side.

wrong positioned d-pad cause the button hard to pressed. its kinda un-responsive.
at first it frustated me, because d-pad is the major button on treo. if it failed to response than you have to use stylus to do the work.

i try to re-plugged the d-pad, but it seem already glued back to it's container. then i look for needle. i push the needle betwen d-pad and treo body opening. then i try to levered out the d-pad, at first it seem not working, but on the second try it worked!

then i rotate the d-pad, put it back in. then d-pad function as normal

new 2400 mAh battery

3 weeks ago, i found out that my treo 650 battery is not functional as usual. it easily dropped and caused the phone to suddenly restart due to loss of power.

i think this is the time that i buy a new battery. because the current battery is already aging :)

so i contact several guy/store that might sold battery for treo 650. and to my surprise non of them has it. and one of them telling me, if i'm serious to buy from him, then he will import it.

because i need a new battery then i aggree to buy from him. and i order a seidio 2400 mAh for treo 650.

3 weeks later, the battery came.
whooho!, i'm happy. but then when i plugged the battery and charged it. no sign of recharging activity.
the treo keep shutting down after 30 seconds on. it keep saying something like "your battery is low, phone will shut down in 30 seconds."

the i examine this new battery. and i read on the back of the battery that it is for treo 680!. so i contact the guy who sell me this battery. but he said that no difference between treo 680' battery and treo 650's battery.

so i browse to seidio, on that page there's nothing that stated the treo 680's battery have compatibilty with treo 650. but, for treo 650's battery it has compatibility with Palm Treo 650/700w/700p/700wx.

and in the back of the battery it state diferent voltage between treo650's battery which is 3.6V and treo 680's battery which has 3.3V

so, the guy who sold me the battery said that he will check it out. and for the mean time he borrowed me a treo 700 battery that compatible with my treo.

retrieve yahoo mail using versamail

it's been widely known that you cannot download your yahoo e-mail into e-mail application using pop3. especially from yahoo.com (but you still can do it if you're singaporean or indonesian yahoo base)

but to my surprise, you still can 'download' your yahoo e-mail using imap4! yey! ..
using a versamail, which is a default e-mail client in treo650. you can read your yahoo e-mail.
here's the step :

1. create a new account in versamail. in menu Accounts/ Account Setup. or using shorcut menu button and W.
2. click on new.. button.
3. fill in any name on account name. let's put in yahooimap.
4. choose mail service: other.
5. choose protocol : IMAP, click next button
6. fill in your yahooID on username, and the password, clik next button
   
7. fill in your complete yahoo e-mail. it should be [yourYahooID]@yahoo.com
   
8. fill in imap.n.mail.yahoo.com on incoming mail server
9. and smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com on outgoing mail server
10. click next button
11. later click advanced button.
12. leave it as default for port number, which is 143 and uncheck the SSL option
13. click next
14. leave it as default for port number, which is 25 and uncheck the SSL option. but put a checkmark on ESMTP
    
15. done

now you should be able to read your yahoo e-mail on your treo650 :)

info : alex.liong at id-PalmOS mailing list.

3 on treo

3 is [almost] the newest cellular network provider in Indonesia. it is a Hutchison Telecom International company in Indonesia.

when last week, my brother handed me a new "3" SIM card.
without any hesitating i plugged the SIM card into my treo650. and later to found out that the phone will receive 3 SMS from the network operator automatically the SIM card put in a cellular phone.
but to my surprise, the SMS didn't come and the SIM card is still unactivated.

So i take off the SIM card and put in Ran's Sony-Ericsson W80. after the SIM plugged in, the in a couple seconds, the SMS came. it turn out that the SMS is a trigger for the oprator to send OTA setting of GPRS and MMS.
that come to my question, why treo was not supported? or it is treo that's not suport the OTA.

an then after the SIM activated. i move the SIM card to my treo. and it works.
but i have to manually copy-ing the GPRS & MMS setting from Ran's phone.

there is one thing that amaze me. which is the customer service phone number stored on the SIM card, it is displayed on the contacts.
later when i remove the "3" SIM card, and put in my matrix card, the "3" CS phone number dissapeared.
cool eh?...

things should be available in treo650

there are some small features, that i believe should exist in treo 650.

1. a default contact button.
   a lack of default contact button, requiring you to goto main application then tap on contacts. but to overcome that, we can create a shortcut;
   1. go to preference on main application,
      
   2. then select button, then you can assign option + [some button] for contacts
   
   
2. direct delete for SIM phonebook from contact.
   you need go to to SIM book to do the delete action
3. middle name field in contact.
   if you're using Microsoft Outlook, then you filled in middle name field in there, after syncronizing, you fill find the middle name is missing from treo 650 contacts.
4. filter syncronize
   on palm OS 4. it need HotSync to syncronize, the latest HotSync is capable to only syncronize filtered data, no need all.
   

hide your phone number for outgoing call

Sometimes we need to make a call that the person we call no need to know our number.

here are how to do it on your treo650 gsm.

• press the green phone button
  
• press menu button, the button on the right, over the red phone button
• select Option / Call Preferences ..
• or press menu button, then press A on keypad.
• then give checkmark on Block outgoing caller ID

then when you dial a number, the person who receive your call should only see : private number or somenthing like that on their display.

note: this feature is sometimes optional, you might need to subscribe to your network provider for this.

new java from palm

annulate my latest post about installing old version of gmail application.

here are some news, palm launch the latest java support for treo!.

er1ck from id-PalmOS has try to install it, and running gmail application. it work, though it's still unstable running opera mini.

entering time for calendar in a quick way

when you want to add a calendar item, and then want to enter the time -- while you're not using stylus -- you need to scroll down of the exact hour and minute. And you have to do it twice!, for start time and end time.

it so not practical to scroll down and up. if you are in a hurry, you can mistakenly select the wrong time.

here are some fast tips to enter the time in calendar. press the number on your keyboard! :)

let say you have an apointment at 7.15 PM, you just pressed 1, 9, 5, that's it! fast and quick.

then press down on the D-pad for end time and enter the number of the hour you want to.

installing mobile gmail application on treo 650

actually gmail mobile application cannot run on treo 650, there's some error 'lang java. something'. (even though you already install javaVM for treo.)

but this guy claimed that there's other older gmail application that can run on treo

so want to try it your self ? let me know if it is working ya?.. :)

updated 13 July 2007

mine is still not working :(
finally it's working, i need to go around, using explorer, to make the .jar file registered on JavaVM instalation

using treo 650 as wireless modem through bluetooth

your GSM treo 650 can be used as a wireless modem to connect your PC to internet. All you have to do is pairing your PC/laptop/notebook with your treo.

1. Turn On Bluetooth on your PC/laptop/notebook and on your treo.
   
2. Open your Bluetooth application on your treo. it should be under Main category.
3. Turn on by tapping on "On" button.
4. Set your device name. You can named it as you like. but my suggestion it is better using specific name.
   
5. Choose "Yes" on Discoverable.
6. Leave Dial-up Networking to "Off" for the moment.
7. tap on "Setup Devices"
   
8. it will display choice of Setup
9. tap on "Trusted Devices".
10. tap on "Add device".
11. later select the device that appeared.
12. enter the secret code on your treo and on your PC/laptop/notebook.
13. Press Home button on your treo
14. Go to Bluetooth application again,
15. now, switch Dial-up Networking to "On"
16. on your PC, on your Bluetooth icon, there should be menu "Network Connection"
    
17. and now Create a new Connection.
18. enter your User and Password of your celular network (please contact your celular network provider)
19. and the number to dial is : *99***1#

for Indonesia Satelindo, Matrix, the user and password leave it blank

displaying alert window on treo 650 without stylus

when other treo application is active while an alert of calendar or task poped up, then the alert can be indicated by blinking asterisk icon on the left top corner of the screen.

for normal use of treo it is not needed of a stylus to touch the screen for activity.
first, i thought, i cannot displaying my alert window without touching the asterisk icon. somehow when i'm not in the mood to take off the stylus, i just using my finger to touch it.

later i found out that, it just need a 2 seconds pressing on the dpad center button on the treo 650 to display the alert window.

so for now, no need to hustle and bustle touching the icon of left top corner.